Perhaps GenDBCX as mentioned on the FoxPro Wiki and downloadable from
the Leafe forum? Sounds like a good place to start.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Ken McGinnis <kamcgin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> look for convgendbcxrun.prg or something like that.
>
> On 11/4/2015 12:51 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
>>
>> Hi, folks:
>>
>> Thought I'd break the quiet with an on-topic question.
>>
>> In several other database backends I deal with, there's a command to
>> dump the contents of the database to text so that you can restore it.
>> MariaDB has mysqldump, PostgreSQL pgdump.
>>
>> Is there a "simple" way to dump:
>> -- table structures
>> -- indexes
>> -- actual data
>>
>> and use the resultant SQL or PRG to create an identical new database?
>> Same structures, indexes and PK/FKs? I need to run a series of
>> destructive tests and I'm looking for a solution more elegant than
>> "ZIP the old data, break it, blow it away, unZIP the old data..."
>>
>> I've cobbled together bits and pieces of this before using parts of
>> GenDBC and various COPY TO TYPE DELIMTED and various hacky commands
>> like:
>>
>> ALTER table clients alter COLUMN iid int AUTOINC NEXTVALUE (MaxClientPK)
>> STEP 1
>>
>> but wondered if there was a Power Tool out there I'd missed.
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> TR
>>
>
>
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